Punjab AAP budget completely forgets poll promise of Rs 1,000 allowance for women

By Our Special Correspondent

A day after facing a humiliating defeat in the elections in its strong parliamentary seat, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab on Monday announced a Rs. It has proposed to spend Rs 1.55 lakh crore and has also set up to supply 300 units free of cost. Electricity to every household from July 1.

For every woman over the age of 18, Rs. The government has not made any allocations to implement the election promise of Rs 1,000 crore. However, it reiterated that the government was committed to providing 300 units of free electricity to all.

In 2022-23, stubborn arrears in Punjab stood at Rs. 2.85 lakh crore, an increase of 8.4 per cent over the previous year. This means that, on an average, the per capita debt of every resident of Punjab is Rs. 94,000 to Rs. 1.01 lakhs - Rs. An increase of more than 7,700.

Cheema said four of the five promises made by the AAP have been fulfilled. This includes medical care, education infrastructure, free electricity and compensation to the families of 300 immortal soldiers. For every woman over the age of 18, Rs. The Bhagwant Mann-led government, which has remained silent on the key election promise of 1,000 scholarships, plans to set up 16 medical colleges in the next five years. This will bring the total number of medical colleges to 25.

The AAP government has announced the replacement of 24,400 posts and regularization of jobs for 36,000 contract employees. Also, 16 new medical colleges and 117 mohalla clinics will be set up in five years at a cost of Rs 77 crore.

To impress the youth, the government has announced that it will replace 24,400 posts in the public sector and regularize jobs for 36,000 contract employees.

The state has been allocated Rs 11,560 crore for basic agriculture. Rs 6,947 crore will be spent to provide free electricity to agricultural tube wells.

The Cheema government is said to be setting up a model of governance. "Our government will not tolerate corruption at all ... Our party started from the anti-corruption movement and the government is working against those who commit corruption," he said.